Polytropon

Another Gentoo guide is available for this task, although it was written for TeX Live 2008 (three years out of date). I’ll take a look through, and hopefully it will not require much (any) modification.

The install was straight-forward enough

<code># emerge texlive</code>

But at the end I end up with the following error:

<code>

* Cannot run texmf-update for some reason.
* Your texmf tree might be inconsistent with your configuration
* Please try to figure what has happened

</code>

I keep coming to this forum posting, so it might be worth a try. First I need to figure out what

<code>equery b texmf-update</code>

is about.

Apparently it will tell me what package to reinstall before reinstalling the complaining packages.

And so now, I guess, I will.

Of course Gentoo has a guide for configuring the synaptics touchpad.

Basically, I should have included “synaptics” in my USE flags, although that alone does not give me tapping or right-edge scrolling, but for the time being, the added precision should be enough. I will revisit this issue.

UPDATE: following a Gentoo Wiki I can now single-tap and use the right edge of the touch pad to scroll! I think that is all I want now, but, again, I might revisit the issue.